church, world and the christian life

Miroslav Volf

Born 1956Married to Judith Gundry-VolfDoctorate and post-doctoral studies were completed at University of Tubingen under Jurgen Moltmann (1986, 1994)Professor of Systematic Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary (1990-2000)Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale University Divinity School (2000-)Director of the Yale Center for Faith and CultureStob Lectures 2002 (published as End of Memory)Laing Lectures 2006

Major Works

Work in the spirit: Toward a Theology of Work (OUP, 1991)

“The Church as a Prophetic Community and a Sign of Hope,” European Journal of Theology 2 (1993): 9-30.

'Soft Difference. Theological Reflections on the Relation Between Church and Culture in 1 Peter', Ex Audito 10: 15-30 (1994)

Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness and Reconciliation (Abingdon, 1996)

(ed.) The Future of Theology: Essays in Honour of Jurgen Moltmann (Eerdmans, 1996)

After Our Likeness: The Church as the the Image of the Trinity (Eerdmans, 1998, published in German in 1996)

'The Trinity is Our Social Program: The Doctrine of the Trinity and the Shape of Social Engagement', Modern Theology 14.3 (1998)

''After Moltmann: Reflections on the Future of Eschatology' in God Will Be All in All: The Eschatology of Jurgen Moltmann, pp. 233-258, ed. Richard Bauckham (T & T Clark, 1999)

'The Final Reconciliation: Reflections on a Social Dimension of the Eschatological Transition', Modern Theology 16.1 (2000)

'Enter into Joy! Sin, Death, and the Life of the World to Come' in John Polkinghorne and Michael Welker (eds.), The End of the World and the Ends of God: Science and Theology on Eschatology (Trinity, 2000)

“Community Formation as an Image of the Triune God: A Congregational Model of Church Order and Life,” Community Formation in the Early Church and in the Church Today, ed. Richard Longenecker, 213-237. Peabody: Hendrickson, 2002.